I am new to this forum, looks like a good one. Here is the deal: I produce/direct medical educational interactive videos for the web, with the occas broadcast standard def documentary. For the last few yrs, our internet workflow has been with the DVX100a at 24p, editing in Vegas or PremierePro and converting to Flash for the web. Our scripting makes liberal use of cover shots in MS,CU,MCU, ECU, etc. We often have to change shots during editing, since our web software combines the shots according to the viewer and it is hard to predict until the end of the editing process. This is quite foreign compared to the approach we used in my 16mm days. We currently shoot lots of cover to keep the editor from decompensating.
I am thinking that we could speed up our process if we took all our shots as longshots and medium shots at 720p and converted them in the NLE to tighter shots when we needed, since we downrez the images anyway, when we convert to Flash. We can almost get away with it in standard def, like pushing a CU to ECU. I wonder if using the HD format would be a better workflow where the editor could "call the shots" in situations where the script did not anticipate a shot but we could tighten it in the editor. As far as background, just about all of our work is shot in greenscreen anyway, so we can accomodate "depth of field" in the editing room.
Any thoughts?
Ed Messina